Featured
The First Stars Formed Very Quickly
Based on a new study, it is possible that the first stars in our Universe formed about 1 billion years…
Boeing’s Starliner Performed its Abort Test Today. One Parachute Failed to Deploy
For years, NASA has been working to restore domestic launch capability to the US and send astronauts to the Moon…
NASA Has a New Method For Cooling Down Electronics Crammed Together in a Spacecraft
Engineers at NASA Goddard have completed flight tests on their revolutionary new cooling system, which has the potential to lead…
Our Guide to the November 11th, 2019 Transit of Mercury Across the Sun
One of the finest spectacles in astronomy is to witness the passage of one object in front of another. This…
The Lowest Mass Black Hole has Been Found, only 3.3 Times the Mass of the Sun
A team of astronomers recently discovered the smallest black hole to date, which indicates that there may be far more…
Asteroid Hygiea is Round Enough That it Could Qualify as a Dwarf Planet, the Smallest in the Solar System
Using the Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers observed Hygeia and determined it could be the smallest dwarf…
Mars 2020 Stands Up on its Wheels For The First Time
The Mars 2020 rover recently passed a milestone at NASA JPL, where it stood on its wheels and legs for…
NASA is Testing a Rover That Could Search For Water Ice on The Moon
NASA has plans to send the VIPER rover to the South Pole of the Moon to look for water ice,…
SpaceX is Sure They’ll be Able to Land Starship on the Moon in 2022
As the president of SpaceX said at the 2019 IAC, the company hopes to conduct missions to the Moon by…
Breakthrough Listen and NASA Team Up to Look for Signs of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence!
Breakthrough Listen recently entered into a partnership with members of the NASA TESS mission team to search for aliens!